Ladd v. Thaler, No. 13-70011 (5th Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CasePetitioner, convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death, appealed the district court's denial of his petition for habeas relief. The parties' experts agreed that petitioner suffered from some degree of deficit in adaptive functioning. The experts sharply disagreed as to whether these deficits were related to petitioner's subaverage intellectual functioning. The court concluded that the district court did not clearly err in finding that petitioner was not mentally retarded where, having heard and evaluated the testimony of each expert, the court found that the State's expert was more persuasive. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment of the district court.
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